Tag: beauty
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ECO GLAM – Save the Date! November 17th, 2013
Ecole Holt Couture – School of Couture Sewing Tailoring and Design’s 4th annual Fashion Event Fundraiser for Making Changes Association Calgary – ECO GLAM – is on Sunday November 17th, at the Calgary Winter Club from 1pm to 5pm. If you wonder how ecology and glamour could possibly synchronize, then you might want to see […]
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EHC Back to School April 3rd
This ‘March break’ thing is passing by all too quickly! And I wonder when we will see some green buds on the trees here in Calgary? I understand that EHC students have been very busy during their time off and are preparing to return after the Easter long weekend. New applications for the 2013-2014 Fall […]
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EHC ‘How to sew’ video series
EHC has added a new web page called ‘Couture Sewing Tips and Secrets’ featuring a video series on ‘how to sew’ basics and tidbits of useful information about professional Couture and Tailoring. We’ve had great feedback to date on the ‘how to thread a needle with one, two and three strands of thread’ and ‘how […]
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My Best Friend’s Closet!
Ecole Holt Couture School of Couture Sewing and Design students and staff visited their community partners Making Changes Association of Alberta in Calgary on Wednesday – an organization that works with around 100 agencies in and round the city that refer clients to MCA, who wish to re-enter the workforce and need employment and life […]
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Cashmere in the summer?
If you are anything like me or have a similarly busy schedule during the time between the end and the beginning of each summer break, you probably don’t have time to take the care of your wardrobe during the year that you should be taking. If picking up your dry cleaning and doing essential laundry […]
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nOw tHaT’s C.L.A.S.S.
Hope that everyone had a great Victoria Day long weekend (here in Canada) for those not familiar with the May holiday – we have chosen to honor Queen Victoria and called it a holiday! An issue that is very close to EHC’s heart is the sustainability of what we are doing in the fashion world. […]
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Happy Mother’s Day!
A call went out to the students at EHC for inspiration for this week’s weblog – they came back with the theme of Mother’s Day. Looking into the origins of this celebration I came across several versions of its history and its varying celebratory traditions. But, it is important just to recognize the contributions of […]
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Calgary Spring War-drab
This Photo captured by video in Banff National Park on March 28, 2012 even Lynx is looking for Spring… An interesting time of year Spring, when one starts to experience symptoms of cabin fever and the longing to just get outside in the sunshine and warming fresh air. Here in Calgary Spring really doesn’t exist […]
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Couturier Magic
One of the differences between a fashion designer and a couturier is that a designer may not be able to turn their creation into workable realities on their own without the help of the pattern maker, or have sufficient knowledge of fabrics and their properties along with respective technical structuring methods and skills. These other experts […]
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